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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Benjamin J. Garlick, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Benjamin J. Garlick, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically generating a list of circuit elements, such as registers, to be context switched designed to avoid the omission of elements that must be context switched are provided. The method generally involves creating a list of potential elements for context switching, assuming these elements will be context switched by default, and then excluding all elements that must not be context switched.